An action-packet film that, while offering plenty of eye candy and flashy special effects, is ultimately a very disappointing movie. The spectacles did little more than sugar coat the convoluted, largely uninteresting plot. Dead man's chest made...
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An action-packet film that, while offering plenty of eye candy and flashy special effects, is ultimately a very disappointing movie. The spectacles did little more than sugar coat the convoluted, largely uninteresting plot. Dead man's chest made absolutely no effort to build on the characters we knew and loved from the first film, and it practically takes all of the flaws from the first, infuses it into the already flimsy foundation of the story, and artificially stretches it to an absolutely agonizing two and a half hour long movie. If that wasn't bad enough, almost all of the attempted humor fell flat,coming across as completely illogical and dumb, rather than silly and fun. In addition, it has perhaps one of the worst endings I have ever seen. (Yes it is even worse than the Matrix Revolutions.) Ironically, in an effort to capitalize in all of the ways the first one succeeded, it churns out something more complicated than it needs to be, and instead of writing one high quality sequel we get to see two broken, uninspired pieces of the puzzle that could hardly be called anything more than a drawn out episode on a hit drama television show. When I go see a movie, I want to see a real story. Hollywood listen to me here: I don't want any more of this "tune in next time, because we are preparing a bridge for a sequel so we can continue to milk the franchise" crap. As far as meeting the criteria of the first, it fails miserably on almost on all fronts; it has no conclusion, there is no mystery to the story, Jack Sparrow has lost almost all of his funny, and the plot makes even less sense than ever before. I really wish Hollywood would have done the right thing. Unfortunately, they are more concerned with lining and stuffing their pockets of money than they are with crafting a piece of art. Unfortunate, because I really had high hopes for this one.